Submitting Comments and Site-Specific Information

SUBMITTING GENERAL COMMENTS ON THE SRHS

To submit comments on the South Ridgeline Habitat Study you can:

1. Send a written comment to the Eugene Planning Division,
    c/o Neil Bjorklund, 99 West 10th Avenue Eugene, Oregon 97401.

2. E-mail your comments to Neil Bjorklund.

3. Attend a public meeting and provide your comments at the meeting.
    No additional public meetings are scheduled at this time.

City staff have developed a set of guidelines to help citizens and property owners prepare and submit information and comments in a way that will be most useful for the purposes of the South Ridgeline Habitat Study. All comments will be reviewed; however, comments that meet these guidelines will be more useful to staff, the consultant and appointed and elected officials.The Guidelines are available by request at the Permit and Information Center, 99 West 10th Avenue and you can download them via the link below.

General Guidelines for Submitting Site- Specific Information

Please respect private property: Do not enter private property for which you do not have express permission to enter. If you do not have express permission to enter, view the land from adjacent streets, or from other vantage points on land for which you have express permission to enter.

Information you submit to the South Ridgeline Habitat Study will be reviewed by City staff, and the information will become part of the public record for the study. All information submitted will be included in a supplemental document that will accompany the consultant’s scientific report as it moves forward through the process. The information you submit may also be forwarded to the consultant for the project, depending on several factors:

(1) when the information is submitted,

(2) whether the consultant has already completed field work in that area,

(3) the total number of citizen information submittals,

(4) whether the consultant has time to review it given other contractual obligations, and

(5) the level of documentation of the information submitted. Submittals that are submitted early in the process, include specific information about rare or sensitive plants or wildlife or special habitats, and contain complete and detailed documentation (as outlined in the Guidelines) are most likely to be reviewed by the consultant.

Field work for the South Ridgeline Habitat Study is scheduled to begin in mid-May 2007 and to continue until early July 2007. No information submitted after that period will be reviewed by the consultant, but all submittals will be reviewed by staff, and will be incorporated into the process.

Download the specific, detailed guidelines here